Baby suit

This looks so easy I'm sure I could make it - baby girl suits. Whose bright idea was it to take TD instead of home evonomics in high school. New beginnings. Learning from scratch - new project. 

16 Months later

Was reading a blog today that made me realise that I had not blogged in ages. Its no wonder that I have been so wound up. 16 months later, here is where we are now.
I got promoted to Acting project manager and began working mornings in the office and evening actually 10pm and 2am with external developers in India

Lautoka has a Mcdonalds - yay and finally!

Cyclone Winston came and terrorised the nation. I was 7 months pregnant. Priya came home to visit and spent the whole night helping Jitoko wipe down the floors from raining coming in through the windows. The roof almost blew away but I stood on Psalms 91 all night long - no harm shall come near my dwelling.

And sure enough the neighbours Tarawau tree uprooted pulling out our electricity line and mandarin tree in its way missing the car. The roofs for the people at the top of the street and the bottom of the street were blown away - we are in the middle of the street so you know that was a God thing. 

The Waqanivalus had a family reunion in Hawaii, there final time together with aunty Mela - anohter God thing that is too emotional for me to write about in this update. 

I gave birth to a healthy baby boy - Aiden Daniel Lagakali on 11/4/2016 at 8:26 am another miracle and God thing seeing as I gave birth a whole month early after my water breaking 24 hours earlier and contraction from midnight but everything was normal, no infections no anamolies nothing. Except that Aiden would wake up and scream his lungs out from 10pm -2am, note the times?

Jaydon is a proud big brother, the best big brother in the world and Aiden just wants to be just like his big brother, they adore each other - "Let brotherly love abound"

The not so little sister married the one whom her soul loves.

There was a big family reunion, the little brother pulled a surprise on everyone. Did I mention that I fell in front of the bridal party? yup but mum was the happiest and that's all that matters.

We lost aunty Mela to cancer 21/10/2016

Jitoko and I were ordained the week after. The Momi project is finally over and after 2whole years my husband has now gone back to working 8am -5pm. 

He still has to report to Momi but is back in Nadi by 5:30pm - that is a testimony for another day. 

This place has taken up a lot of our sweat and blood, we're not yet ready to fully walk away from it. In fact I'm researching how to buy land nearby for once this place gets booming.

More later...

Scooby Gone

Scooby died on Saturday night and boy are we going to miss him

We fed him, he went downstairs and an hour later was choking, turned purple, breathing slowed and then he went.

It was so heartbreaking. This dog was a gentle fighter and I will always love him. 

I called him my big boy because he was bigeer tehn Jaydon in size and height.

He was so loving.

I will not get another dog of another breed again. Only ridgebacks.

Scooby has taught me to be a fighter. He was bullied, he got sick on and off but he never gave up and he never complained.

When we first got scooby, he had vomitted all the way to nadi, Jitoko had to bath him and leave him in his officer to dry.

He was lactose intolerant and we had no idea, we gave him milk. He was sick a week.

When he was better he followed Jitoko to the back to poop and he was bitten by a bee.

Then a week later he fell off the verandah.

The dogs in the neighbourhood were jealous of him but he didn't mnind. He did his own thing.

He would always come scratching on the front door wanting to come inside or complain about something.

He would run out of the toilet the minute he saw the door open just to come up and lick you.

I miss you scooby.

I wish there was something we could have done to save him. 

If only there was a proper vet in Lautoka. That half an hour trying t o persuade the vet in nadi would have made a huge difference.

Dejavu moment thinking back to dad's last night with us.

He answers Prayers

Even the ones that don't go our way. 

On Monday morning I had forgotten to transfer money out of my savings out for withdrawal and after giving Alini and Jaydon their fare was down to only $3. Walking down the road I prayed Lord I'd this to be more then enough to get me to town and then to work. 

Got to the bottom of the road and a bus came past. Looked at the time only 10 minutes past 7 phew God had answered my prayer. The bus goes up the road towards Jasper and I thought I just might have that chance to catch the Fiji Airways bus. Except that it didn't turn into town. This bus was going into Simla towards the hospital and got into town at half past 7. There were no mini buses by the time I got to the bus stand and for the first time in my entire commuting to Nadi work life a Ba van reverses and tells everyone to get it.

Yes I had to take the longest ride to town. No i am never getting on that bus again. Yes God answered my prayer I even had change from that $3.

Classic example of God works in mysterious ways.

Green Pastures

Another interesting revelation.

This time on the way to Nadi this morning. I might as well document them FMI later.

Psalms 23:

The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want.

He maketh me lie down in green pastures.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

The Lord is my shepherd he will lead, he will take care, he will protect.

If he is a shepherd that would make me his sheep.

I shall not want means he will take care of all my needs- another translation says I have everything I need.

What do sheep need- a place with grass and water
Everything provided for.

All you have to do is eat and sleep and get fattened.

Green pastures and still waters represent a place of rest. A peaceful place without a care in the world. A place where you know for sure that God will take care of you and everything pertaining to you. An assurance. 

Revelation on Family

So had this interesting revelation on family I had to write about. 

Of course I'd have to find the bible references to back it up but I reckon its so spot on.

Why do you think God created family?

When you enter the house just like when you enter the house of God it no longer becomes about you. Its no longer you time. You are at the disposal of your family. You have 8 hours in the day for you to find yourself some me time but the minute you step into the house its family time.

God is a God of relationships. We can't choose who our family is just like we can't choose who our church members are. We have to love our family just about as much and more then the church. God created family because its the first place where we put into action love and serve, to die to self daily. To be selfless. We can't say we love the church. be all sold out for the church and sit at home and be disconnected from family. 

Somebody once said family is a mini church. Then everything starts with family. Your time, your love, your words into action. Teaching, training, raising - fail that at home and you've failed it everywhere else. To be an effective leader everything starts with family. The devil knows that's why he has wiped away family time. Walk into a house today and within that same house see how everyone is talking into the computers, phones devices but not each other.

Just one of those days

Hallelujah I love my husband so much today. I placed my card into the atm yesterday to take out money to pay the house girl to find I had not been paid. Only to find out today that we had been paid and after much arguing with Westpac customer care came to find out it had been withdrawn in the Solomons by Mister thinking it was from the company for the stuff he needed to buy. Oilei na bula...Another moment of God teaching me to leave beyond my pay and to trust in him.